1 Samuel 6:21

6:21 So they sent messengers to the residents of Kiriath Jearim, saying, “The Philistines have returned the ark of the Lord. Come down here and take it back home with you.”

Joshua 18:14

18:14 It then turned on the west side southward from the hill near Beth Horon on the south and extended to Kiriath Baal (that is, Kiriath Jearim), a city belonging to the tribe ¹  of Judah. This is the western border. ² 

Joshua 18:2

18:2 seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land. ³ 

Joshua 6:2

6:2 The Lord told Joshua, “See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, ⁴  along with its king and its warriors.

Joshua 6:1

6:1 Now Jericho ⁵  was shut tightly ⁶  because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter. ⁷ 

Joshua 13:5-6

13:5 the territory of Byblos ⁸  and all Lebanon to the east, from Baal Gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo Hamath. ⁹  13:6 I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, ¹⁰  all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” ¹¹ 

Psalms 132:6

132:6 Look, we heard about it ¹²  in Ephrathah, ¹³ 

we found it in the territory of Jaar. ¹⁴ 

[18:14]  ¹ tn Heb “sons,” here referring to the tribe.

[18:14]  ² tn Or “side.”

[18:2]  ³ tn Heb “there were left among the sons of Israel who had not divided up their inheritance seven tribes.”

[6:2]  ⁴ tn Heb “I have given into your hand Jericho.” The Hebrew verb נָתַתִּי (natatti, “I have given”) is probably best understood as a perfect of certitude, indicating the certainty of the action. The Hebrew pronominal suffix “your” is singular, being addressed to Joshua as the leader and representative of the nation. To convey to the modern reader what is about to happen and who is doing it, the translation “I am about to defeat Jericho for you” has been used.

[6:1]  ⁵ map For location see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

[6:1]  ⁶ tn Heb “was shutting and shut up.” HALOT 2:743 paraphrases, “blocking [any way of access] and blocked [against any who would leave].”

[6:1]  ⁷ tn Heb “there was no one going out and there was no one coming in.”

[13:5]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the land of the Gebalites.”

[13:5]  ⁹ tn Or “the entrance to Hamath.” Most modern translations take the phrase “Lebo Hamath” to be a proper name, but often provide a note with the alternative, where “Hamath” is the proper name and לְבוֹא (lÿvo’) is taken to mean “entrance to.”

[13:6]  ¹⁰ tn The meaning of the Hebrew name “Misrephoth Maim” is perhaps “lime-kilns by the water” (see HALOT 2:641).

[13:6]  ¹¹ tn Heb “only you, assign it by lots to Israel as an inheritance as I commanded you.”

[132:6]  ¹² tn Rather than having an antecedent, the third feminine singular pronominal suffix here (and in the next line) appears to refer to the ark of the covenant, mentioned in v. 8. (The Hebrew term אָרוֹן [’aron, “ark”] is sometimes construed as grammatically feminine. See 1 Sam 4:17; 2 Chr 8:11.)

[132:6]  ¹³ sn Some understand Ephrathah as a reference to Kiriath-jearim because of the apparent allusion to this site in the next line (see the note on “Jaar”). The ark was kept in Kiriath-jearim after the Philistines released it (see 1 Sam 6:21-7:2). However, the switch in verbs from “heard about” to “found” suggests that Ephrathah not be equated with Jair. The group who is speaking heard about the ark while they were in Ephrath. They then went to retrieve it from Kiriath-jearim (“Jaar”). It is more likely that Ephrathah refers to a site near Bethel (Gen 35:16, 19; 48:7) or to Bethlehem (Ruth 4:11; Mic 5:2).

[132:6]  ¹⁴ tn Heb “fields of the forest.” The Hebrew term יָעַר (ya’ad, “forest”) is apparently a shortened alternative name for קִרְיַת יְעָרִים (qiryat yÿ’arim, “Kiriath-jearim”), the place where the ark was kept after it was released by the Philistines and from which David and his men retrieved it (see 1 Chr 13:6).